April 10th: Super 8 winner Davey Richards has signed a fulltime contract with Ring Of Honor. Richards is set to make his ROH debut on 4/22 in Philadelphia. He will be on almost every ROH show after that including 4/28 in Dayton and 4/29 in Cleveland. Can Richards make an impact in ROH?

I don't think he's a sellout. This is in my opinion a tremendous opportunity for him to become popular on the east coast of the United States. If the Super 8 was the start, only God knows what we could be seeing over here on the east coast.

Why are you calling him a sell out? It's good for him to wrestle else where and get more experience. I don't know if he is wrestling full time already, but that would be a goal of any wrestler and this would bring him one step closer. This allows him to make more income doing what he loves. This is great and we should be happy for our very own Davey Richards. Besides he said at ASW 3 that PWG is his home and that he will always be loyal to us.

I'm sure Peace was being sarcastic. Plus I'm not too worried about this. PWG is good about getting their main guys on shows and avoiding ROH dates. Plus Claudio works for ROH full time, and he's at shows whenever he's available.

Also, now that Dragon is booked for 4/22 I hope ROH starts to book him and we get to see Dragon and Davey tear shit up in ROH.

I think Super Dragon should stay away from ROH. At least he shoudlnt wrestle there very often. The reason is because he is quite popular and so is ROH. If he were to wrestle on ROH shows there would be less of a reason to purchase PWG DVDs. I have actually read on message boards that some people buy PWG DVDs just to see what all the fuss about Super Dragon is about. The market value of your product (Super Dragon matches) falls if the quantity supplied increases for a given demand.

On the flipside, the extra exposure can also increase demand (and thus market value). However, care must be taken to ensure that the effects of the additional supply is less than the effects of the additional exposure. In other words, he should go to ROH as a form of marketing/advertising but should not wrestle there too often because this may have a negative impact on PWG DVD sales.

If he signed with WWE he would be sell out I think PWG and ROH work together so they don't have shows on the same weekends. ROH even had Jamie Knoble when he was ROH champ do the "job" in BOLA. ROH was the reason I got into PWG.

April 10th: Super 8 winner Davey Richards has signed a fulltime contract with Ring Of Honor. Richards is set to make his ROH debut on 4/22 in Philadelphia. He will be on almost every ROH show after that including 4/28 in Dayton and 4/29 in Cleveland. Can Richards make an impact in ROH?

Sellout.

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WTF. You are crazy. That doesn't even make sense. But if Davey Richards got paired up with some random white chick and started making "real hip hop" and sampling Dick Dale and making songs about lovely lady lumps, then I can call him a sellout. Where is the love?

Great news for Davey. Just awesome seeing him grow into this awesome talent. I wish I could take back all the times I ragged on him in WAR.

I don't think he's a sellout for signing with the best promotion in the east coast. That Super 8 tourney always sky rocket wrestlers careers & I'm not suprise that it happen to him, Congrats to Richards, he deserves it.

Whether it was sarcasm or not I think its fair to definatively say that Davey is not a sellout.

This is a good thing for his career, his family, and his future. If so much pride is placed upon Davey because he's "our" star, then we should be glad to see him make a huge leap such as this.

As for SuperDragon, and the possible effects it will have on DVD sales...

...it's inconsequential. Yes, PWG's DVD sales may fluctuate due to a lack of interest, or a gain of interest in Dragon, or even a gain of interest in PWG itself. However this is something that can be expected of any promotion in a similar situation. I'm sure there are people who have bought PWG DVD's because AJ Styles was on it. No doubt there have been a few Samoa Joe fans that have purchased PWG DVD's just to see his matches.

I think I'm pretty much beating a dead horse at this point since it's a fair assumption that we all know how wrestling fans like to spend their money when it comes to tapes & DVD's.

As far as Dragon working PWG goes, its good for him, his career, & for PWG. Same as Davey. Anyone getting a chance to wrestle in ROH should take it.

shyboy13 wrote:I think Super Dragon should stay away from ROH. At least he shoudlnt wrestle there very often. The reason is because he is quite popular and so is ROH. If he were to wrestle on ROH shows there would be less of a reason to purchase PWG DVDs.I have actually read on message boards that some people buy PWG DVDs just to see what all the fuss about Super Dragon is about. The market value of your product (Super Dragon matches) falls if the quantity supplied increases for a given demand.

I doubt Dragon working in ROH will result in less DVD sales for PWG. If anything, it would lead to more sales if people who are impressed with his ROH run want to see more of him. Plus the only things that would hurt PWG DVD sales are A. Bad Booking and B. Bad Matches. If PWG is putting on a great product, and Super Dragon is impressing people in ROH, only good things will come. Read and believe what you want on other message boards about Dragon being the only reason people buy DVDs, but chances are there are more reasons people are buying DVDs just for Dragon.

shyboy13 wrote:On the flipside, the extra exposure can also increase demand (and thus market value). However, care must be taken to ensure that the effects of the additional supply is less than the effects of the additional exposure. In other words, he should go to ROH as a form of marketing/advertising but should not wrestle there too often because this may have a negative impact on PWG DVD sales.

I'm willing to bet most of the ROH fanbase buys PWG DVDs already, and vice versa. Dragon wrestling there more often will most likely have no effect on PWG DVD sales for other reasons. Dragon could be booked in different matches in ROH that some people might not care too much to see, while Dragon is being booked in amazing dream matches in PWG that people would want to see. There is no telling on what could happen here. Your statements seem pointless to me as there is no real evidence that tells us why people buy PWG DVDs.

You are correct. There is no telling what could happen here. However, I used logic as well as economic theory to come to a conclusion. You only seemed to spit out what you think may happen. That is fine too. Everyone has an opinion and yours just may be correct. None of us are fortune tellers. I am however well qualified in real life to come to such conclusions.

It's A Bomb wrote:Your statements seem pointless to me as there is no real evidence that tells us why people buy PWG DVDs.

While I may not have any evidence to back up my idea, it was in no way pointless. In fact, it was no more pointless than the opinions you posted. It is not my fault that you did not get the point (unless of course it was over your head and I did not take into consideration my audience). If you want to debate something with me on a message board then perhaps I will participate. I will not stoop so low as to insult you on the internet. THAT would be pointless.

April 10th: Super 8 winner Davey Richards has signed a fulltime contract with Ring Of Honor. Richards is set to make his ROH debut on 4/22 in Philadelphia. He will be on almost every ROH show after that including 4/28 in Dayton and 4/29 in Cleveland. Can Richards make an impact in ROH?

shyboy13 wrote:However, I used logic as well as economic theory to come to a conclusion. You only seemed to spit out what you think may happen.

*Snip*

I am however well qualified in real life to come to such conclusions.

Your economic theory holds no ground. Most theories are based on tons of research, your theory is just based on message board posts that most likely don't give a good idea on what sells and doesn't sell DVDs. I don't know about what you do in real life that makes you qualified to draw such conclusions, but chances are what you do in real life doesn't make you an expert on the DVD buying habits of internet smart marks.

shyboy13 wrote:While I may not have any evidence to back up my idea, it was in no way pointless. In fact, it was no more pointless than the opinions you posted.

You post was pretty pointless. You have no evidence, thus, having nothing that helps support your case. My opinions wheren't pointless, as they point out the flaws in your reasoning as to why Super Dragon shouldn't be in ROH because of "DVD sales".

shyboy13 wrote:It is not my fault that you did not get the point (unless of course it was over your head and I did not take into consideration my audience).

Nope, I got your point, and it was horrible. Another thing I noticed in my life is when someone has a weak argument they always fall back on the "you didn't get my point" card to dig themselves out of a hole. I've seen it done on television, so I'm well qualified in real life to draw such conclusions.

shyboy13 wrote:If you want to debate something with me on a message board then perhaps I will participate. I will not stoop so low as to insult you on the internet. THAT would be pointless.

Huh? I never insulted you in my post. You seem to be really moody on these boards, as most of the posts you make seem to complain about people on message boards. Why are you so upset?

Study my original post a little closer. If you dont get the point I cannot help you without spoon feeding it to you. I will summarize though:

If Super Dragon works ROH very often there is a POSSIBILITY that PWG DVD sales MAY drop because there will be less of a reason to buy PWG DVDs.

You can postulate on the affect of Dragon going to ROH on a full-time basis on PWG DVD sales just like I can. I will not say your opinion is wrong. I will say, however, that I firmly believe my opinion at least sound and grounded on the laws of supply and demand (which are so strong they are called "laws" instead of "theories").

Regarding my qualifications, I am quite qualified to give an expert opinion on this. You can believe me or not. Afer all, this is the internet and I can say anything about myself and it may or may not be a lie. Still, it doesnt change anything if you believe me or if you dont. I just cannot see how anyone can disagree with what I said. Especially sine I used words like "may" and "possibility".

You can respond if you want but I most likely will not because this is a thread about Davey Richards. I dont want to deviate from the subject any further than we already have. Back to the point, it is great that Davey is going to ROH. It is great for him as it gets him more exposure and probably more money. It is bad for us because most likely we will see him less.